What precedence for shift-left/shift-right operators?

Most languages with a C like expression syntax (this includes C, C++,
Java, Perl, Ruby and a few others) define the precedence of <<
and >> (bit-wise shift-left and shift-right) different than the
multiplicative operators * / %, but at least one language (Object
Pascal) defines them to be the same.


I'm confused about this, as this means that for example 1+2+3+4<<2 means
"sum up 1, 2,3 and 4, then shift it left two times". I find the Pascal
way more intuitive: "Sum up 1, 2, 3, and the result of 4 shifted left 2
times" because it is closer to 1+2+3+4*4 (Remind that a shift is just a
multiplication by 2).


What do you think? Which alternative would you prefer? This is purely a
design question and I would like to hear different opinions before
deciding which precedence to use in my toy language.


--
Timon Christl <me@christltimon.de>
[Whatever you're used to seems "intuitive". In practice, few of us can
remember all of the precedence rules so we overparenthesize to make our
intent clear. -John]

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